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Master coffee roaster leaves Peet's to start his own company

San Francisco Business Times

Peet's Coffee has lost its master coffee roaster, but coffee lovers need not despair.

John Weaver has left Peet's after 27 years to start his own brand: Weaver's Coffee & Tea.

Weaver co-founded Wild Card Roasters in September with Michael Brown and Bruce Inouye with hopes of making coffee even more artisanal than Peet's brews. Weaver will personally taste every batch of Weaver's that is produced.

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Al-Qaeda affiliate burns coffee shop in Gaza Strip

Al-Qaeda affiliated group takes responsibility for setting internet coffee shop ablaze in Gaza Strip as punishment for what they deem unethical behavior. Group threatens others who don't comply with ethical standards.

After the Palestinian branch of al-Qaeda took responsibility for killing a senior Palestinian intelligence officer and four of his escorts three weeks ago, the group again took responsibility for violence in the Gaza Strip. Early Sunday morning, Gunmen shot and set fire to an internet coffee shop in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, causing massive damage.

Sunday afternoon an announcement was made claiming that the organization Islamic Swords of Justice, identified as an affiliate of al-Qaeda are responsible for the incident.

In the organization's announcement, it was stated that burning the coffee shop is "part of a series of actions aimed at fighting corruption and the corrupt. During the holy month of Ramadan, our fighters have started operating on the holy land and in the early morning placed a bomb weighing ten kilograms (22 pounds) next to the coffee shop, ridden with corruption and characteristic of the unethical activities that have increased in recent days. Jihad fighters detonated the bomb as a message to all the corrupt people."

Source: Ynet News

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Desire for Kona coffee brewing in Japan

Growers and Big Island officials seek to capitalize on the growing interest

By Karin Stanton
Associated Press

KAILUA-KONA » If you grow it, we will drink it.

At least that's what Japan seems to be telling the Kona coffee industry.

Japanese trend-loving and fashion-conscious consumers believe they have found the next big thing in Kona coffee, which is increasingly coveted by a nation of consumers always hungry for the best.

Growers and the local government are looking to capitalize on Japanese interest at the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival.

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McDonald's coffee aid perks up its franchisees

By Mike Hughlett | Tribune staff reporter

McDonald's Corp. confirmed Friday that it will support U.S. franchisees by paying for up to 40 percent of the costly restaurant renovations needed for the rollout of its specialty coffee program.

McDonald's foray into specialty coffees, smoothies and other upscale beverages constitutes one the company's largest product introductions ever. And it will be expensive, costing franchisees around $25,000 for equipment and up to $75,000 to retool the restaurants to handle the new beverages.

Some franchisees have worried whether the potential payoff for the beverage offensive is worth the big investment, one of the biggest they have ever been asked to make by McDonald's, the Tribune reported this week. Franchisees own about 85 percent of McDonald's nearly 14,000 U.S. restaurants.

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A Short History of Espresso

The term café-espress has been used since the 1880s, well before espresso machines existed. It means coffee made to order, expressly for the person ordering it. It also means coffee fresh in every sense of the word:

* Made from fresh beans roasted at most two weeks prior to use,
* Ground just before brewing,
* Brewed just before drinking.

Ideally, all cafés and restaurants would serve even their regularly brewed coffee as espresso in this larger sense—freshly ground in press pots, neopolitans, vacuum brewers or table top pourovers. The aroma of good coffee is delicate and dissipates in a matter of minutes after grinding, whether it is brewed or not.

People are in a hurry. For many workers, waiting five minutes for coffee to brew is too long. They were also in a hurry 100 years ago when inventors started looking for faster ways to brew coffee to order. It being the age of steam, the first attempts used steam rather than water. A steam brewing contraption at the 1896 World's Fair is said to have made 3000 cups per hour. Unfortunately, steam-brewed coffee tastes awful since coffee generally needs to brew at just below boiling (195-205°F or 90-96°C) to taste its best. In 1901, the Italian inventor Luigi Bezzera came up with a workable solution. Pavoni manufactured these first espresso machines in 1905.

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How to choose the Best Espresso Machine

Ask any true coffee-lover worldwide about the best cup of coffee and you'd most likely get an answer "The Espresso!" This one tiny shot of pure coffee adorned with foam at the top gives a kickstart to many of us, awakening our minds and bodies and making us fit to survive through the rest of the day. Most people who haven't had a good cup of espresso typically say they don't like it because it is bitter. If espresso is bitter, it most likely hasn't been made properly as it is supposed to taste like a cup of molten bitersweet chocolate.

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Coffee can keep eye tremors away

Sunday, December 09, 2007
Islamabad

Italian researchers have found that having one or two cups of coffee a day could protect you from eye tremors, a condition in which there is sustained, forced, involuntary closing of the eyelids.

The disorder known as blepharospasm may affect people aged between 50 and 70. People with blepharospasm may be unable to prevent their eyes from clamping shut so at times they are effectively blind, Forbes reported.

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